Very nice score Dave!
73
Fred
K1FMS
On Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 3:38 PM Dave via NEWSVHF <newsvhf@mailman.qth.net>
wrote:
> Like they say LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION.
>
>
>
> If you want to place in the Top 10 nation-wide in a VHF contest, you have
> to
> live in the NorthEast. Although this was a decent contest and I hit my
> all-time highest score ever in 45 years of VHF contesting, I'm sure by the
> rummers I've heard, the multi-band guys in New England cleaned up again.
> Out here in the boonies of south-central Virginia working nearly 30 QSOs on
> 222 & 432 is monumental. However, it doesn't help much against stations
> that are located 100 to 200 miles from 3 to 4 times as many on those same
> bands. Not to mention all the close-in 1296 and up stations in those
> over-populated home-owner association run neighborhoods of the NE. Even
> with my first ever 6-digit score, it would have been much better had there
> been any enhanced propagation on the 2m and up bands. Sporadic E
> propagation on 6 meters was great most of the contest, with a European
> opening in the beginning hours.
>
>
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>
> Band QSO Grid
>
>
>
> 50M 265 156
>
> 144M 102 36
>
> 222M 28 17
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> 432M 28 18
>
> 1.2G 3 3
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>
> Total 426 230
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> Score: 112,240
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> de K3SK
>
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